Posted in Adventures, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Hamilton, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, News, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, books, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, culture, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, mystery, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, people, photos, picture of, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on January 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Hey there other cavers in Ontario
IMG_5031, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
It’s odd how you feel this kinship for other cavers and its really exciting when you see one. My wife and I went down to IKEA in Hamilton today to get some bookshelves for all the books my dad just gave me. We took a different [...]
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Dirty woman!
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From left to right - Marc (SQS), Greg (TCG) and Corneilie (SQS) all crouched around an area of flowstone on the floor. This is in the cave that we visited last weekend - a place of great natural beauty along the northern reaches of Ontario’s dolostone rim. Dolostone is not [...]
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Seeping tunnels - dank and mouldy - forgotten in their forested obscurity.
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The dolostone surface of this area was ground smooth by an enormous sheet of ice - a lobe that stretched down in a south westerly direction. The melting front retreated past this point around 12000 years ago.
The lake beside whose shores we [...]
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IMG_6849, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Reaching the shore of this nameless - somewhat desolate looking patch of water we skirted around its edges until we found the caves. To any caver the rock - a shattered dolostone should suggest some promise - though the fractured nature of the material might also suggest a material that is [...]
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Looking for caves near Lake Erie
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This is Jeff C. - a photo taken recently while we were exploring an area south of Hamilton - looking for caves. Jeff had alerted us to a discovery that he had made and we were especially excited as it was a tunnel in Devonian age [...]
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His blue eye and white claw lead me to that conclusion.
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There we go - “Bad Old Chester”. Chester - the new “Rockhound”.
Sadly Shaka passed away in October. He had a tumor on his spleen - virtually unsaveable as the ensuing operation revealed. You may remember him from the post “Cave Police” (July 2006) and [...]
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Fossilized creatures of the Devonian Age still lie along the ancient Lake erie shoreline.
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Anyway … To continue with the narrative about our “Caving off the radar”…
The Devonian Age rock (360 -408m yrs in age) first cuts the surface in Ontario as far east as Brantford. This is but a short drive [...]
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A surprising abundance of karst features in what was otherwise belived to be a cave desert.
IMG_6818, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
As of late Jeff Mirza, Jeff Collins, myself and my regular caving partner have all been investigating off the caving radar in Southern Ontario - an area that is not generally recognized as “primo” caving ground.
The [...]
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IMG_6208, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
A friend and I visited this cave some time ago, hearing that there was an interesting little pit some distance in we went mid-winter on a Sunday evening. From this crevice there is a tight bedding plane crawl running with water and not so enticing in below zero temperatures. Desperate as [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Tamarindo, Travel, adventure in Ontario, animals, articles, cave digging, caves in Ontario, caving, eco tourism in Costa Rica, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, hiking, holiday in Costa Rica, howler monkeys, my life, nature, ontario, photos, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, visiting Costa Rica, wierd, wildlife in Costa Rica on May 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I had recently been corresponding with one of this province’s cavers - James Sled, he has told me of a cave that sounds really promising - a pit on a high ridge in prime caving country. The pit is situated in the bottom of a 15 foot wide depression and beneath a river runs along [...]
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